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  1. Word Count

     Five Ways to be a Better Reader... and Writer
    Wed Feb 10 00:00:00 EST 2010
    One of my three children is dyslexic, but I taught the other two to read myself. It wasn't hard, but here's the deal — what I taught them wasn't so much reading as it was decoding. That is, I explained to them the various sounds that all the letters in the alphabet represent. For example, the letter e can sometimes sound like "eh" as in pen. But it can also sound like "ee" as in we.

  2. Blog Excerpts

     The Found Poetry of Google Voice
    Wed Feb 10 00:00:00 EST 2010
    Poetry can be found in unexpected places. On 3 Quarks Daily, Richard Eskow takes transcriptions of his phone messages, as automatically processed by Google Voice, and turns them into hilarious gems of free verse. Check it out here.

  3. Word Count

     Right Back Atcha, Mr. Hyphenator
    Tue Feb 09 00:00:00 EST 2010
    Wendalyn Nichols, editor of the Copyediting newsletter, offers useful tips to copy editors and anyone else who prizes clear and orderly writing. Here she takes an extended look at the troublesome issue of when to hyphenate compounds.

  4. Teachers at Work

     Probing Questions to "Right" Your Students' Writing (and Your Own)
    Mon Feb 08 00:00:00 EST 2010
    Last month, I held forth on the art of getting your students — or, for that matter, yourself! — to write more. By now, you no doubt have sheaves of scrawl-covered loose-leaf sitting about. So, what's next? Editing and revising.

  5. Lesson Plans

     Salinger and the Vocabulary of the Vernacular
    Fri Feb 05 00:00:00 EST 2010
    How can students map the meanings of some of Holden Caulfield's slang words and expressions?

  6. Blog Excerpts

     Ode to a Prescriptivist
    Fri Feb 05 00:00:00 EST 2010
    On OUPblog, the official blog of Oxford University Press, sociolinguist Alexandra D'Arcy has kicked off a new column by penning an ode to her grandmother, "a firm advocate of correctness" who "in the proud tradition of language purists... found anything other than 'the standard' objectionable."

  7. Word Routes

     The Legend of Cary Grant's Telegram
    Thu Feb 04 00:00:00 EST 2010
    After writing about "crash blossoms" in last Sunday's New York Times Magazine, I've gotten plenty of responses from readers sending in their own favorite examples of unintentionally ambiguous headlines. I've also been hearing more about an anecdote I mentioned, relating to a legendary telegram long attributed to Cary Grant.

  8. Evasive Maneuvers

     Hope is the New Risk
    Wed Feb 03 00:00:00 EST 2010
    I have to admit, I'm still basking in the glow of last month's American Dialect Society meeting, when my two picks for 2009's Most Euphemistic — hiking the Appalachian trail and sea kittens — each took home an award. Hiking killed it in the euph category, while the sea kittens swam over to "Most Unnecessary" and took the prize. Booyah, and may I add, for the benefit of older readers, huzzah!

  9. Word Routes

     Crash Blossoms Keep on Blossoming
    Tue Feb 02 00:00:00 EST 2010
    My latest On Language column in the New York Times Magazine is all about "crash blossoms," a new term for a phenomenon that people have been noting for decades: newspaper headlines that can be read in unintended ways (like "British Left Waffles on Falklands"). I've already received a plethora of emails from readers who wanted to share crash blossoms that they've collected over the years.

  10. Language Lounge

     On Some Deficiencies in Our Search Engines
    Mon Feb 01 00:00:00 EST 2010
    "Look it up!" used to be a directive mainly about words in dictionaries; these days it's as likely to be about information on the Internet. A common experience in both cases is that you don't always find what you're looking for. This month in the Lounge we look at some of the overlapping reasons why.
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